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. From the first of its books to the last, the Bible has gone to great lengths, and in great detail, showing that Christ is biologically related to Adam. Even with all that readily available textual evidence; there are numbers of people out there in cyberspace insisting that he's not. _

. 31» What Is Matt 22:42-45 Supposed To Mean? That's a reference to Ps 110:1 which Jesus interpreted speaking of Christ, a.k.a. Messiah. • Ps 110:1 . . The Lord says to my lord: Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. There's two distinctly different Hebrew...

. 30» Why Is Jeconiah's Curse So Important? A curse, back in the Old Testament, leveled at a really bad king in Solomon's royal line to David's throne reads like this: • Jer 22:29-30 . . O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord! Thus said the Lord: Record this man as without succession...

. An answer to your inquiry is located at the link below. You probably won't like it because the author portrays the Jews as their own worst enemy. God In The Holocaust _

. 29» Isaac Was Abraham's Only Son When He Was Offered? • Gen 22:2 . .Then God said: Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about. Abraham actually had two sons at this...

. 28» God "Came Down" To Inspect The Tower Of Babel? • Gen 11:5 . .Jehovah came down to look at the city and tower that man had built. That verse presents an interesting theological problem. Wouldn't it make better sense by saying Jehovah looked down, instead of saying He "came" down? Why...

. 27» Why Was Meat Added To Man's Diet? • Gen 9:3 . . Every creature that lives shall be yours to eat; as with the green grasses, I give you all these. It seems plausible to me that the inclusion of meat in Man's diet is evidence that the human body's strength was declining seeing as how Noah...

. 26» Why Was Canaan Execrated Instead Of His Father? The curse on Canaan wasn't personal, i.e. it was more or less collateral damage due to his dad's exclusion from the blessings bestowed upon the other two brothers per Gen 9:26-27. As a result of missing that blessing; Ham's posterity became...

. • Eph 4:24 . . Put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. God is righteous and truly holy, viz: God never sins. So then, if the new man is patterned after God, then it must be that the new man never sins. Two more useful texts for instructing...

. According to 1John 1:8, Christians do sin; whereas according to Eph 4:24, the new man never sins. People who've undergone the birth spoken of at John 3:3-5 are an amalgam of old man and new man. However, the old and the new aren't joined at the hip. By means of a special circumcision...

. 25» Where Is Noah's Ark? • Gen 8:3b-4 . . At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters diminished, so that in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The Hebrew word for "Ararat" is from 'ararat (ar-aw-rat') which...

. 24» Why Was Cain's Offering Rejected? Long story short: God rejected Cain along with rejecting his offering. This is important because God still does business like that with mankind to this day. • Prov 15:8 . . Jehovah detests the sacrifice of the wicked Cain's situation is well illustrated...

. There are seven churches listed in the beginning of the book of Revelation. Which of those seven was the "my church" spoken of at Matt 16:18? _

. 23» What is The New Man? Adam was the first Man. His version of humanity became obsolete when Christ rose from the dead. From thence, Adam became the old model and Christ the new and improved model; so to speak. A sampling of their differences are: 1) The old Man is made from the Earth...

. 22» Why Didn't God Execute Cain For Murder? God couldn't haul Cain into court for killing his kid brother Abel because according to Deut 5:2-4, Rom 4:15, Rom 5:13, and Gal 3:17; the laws of God aren't enforced ex post facto, i.e. they're not retroactive. Seeing as God enacted no laws...

. 21» Why Is Death The Wages Of Sin? It's my educated guess that the penalty is so severe because Man was created in the image and likeness of God. For example: according to Gen 9:5-6, murderers deserve capital punishment-- not because murder is wrong per se, rather --because the image and...

. 20» What Is Meant By Man As The Image Of God? According to Gen 5:3 and Heb 1:1-3, image and likeness basically refers to progeny, i.e. offspring. Natural children are born in that position. But Man wasn't born from God-- i.e. via procreation --rather, Man was created, viz: Man exists as...

. Jesus sacrificed his life for the whole world; not just part of the world, but everybody who has ever lived, and everybody who will ever live, down to the last born on Earth. That says quite a bit about how Jesus feels about me. He may not like me-- at all. In point of fact Jesus just may...

. 19» Did Jesus' Mom Expect Him Back From Death? A search of the names of the women who went out to Christ's grave site on Easter morning doesn't find her mentioned among them, nor does 1Cor 15:1-8. None of Christ's original disciples believed he was going to recover from crucifixion, so it...

. 18» What Is The Fallen Nature? In a nutshell: the so-called fallen nature is a preference for unobstructed, unrestrained, self rule; i.e. deciding for one's self what determines right and wrong and/or what determines good and evil. In that respect, the fallen nature tends to be its own God...